Industrial Engineer

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240-***-**** *****.*****@*****.*** **0 Kerby St, Apt #340, Arlington, Texas – 76013

Summary

An Industrial Engineer - Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (CLSSGB) by KPMG and with 2 years of experience in manufacturing and management domain. Increase efficiency of a plant by identifying opportunities to implement lean and six sigma methodologies. Improve quality, increase productivity, reduce waste and maximize ROI. Vendor negotiation with mutual benefits. Manage and complete project accurately with time and budget constraint. Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, MS project, AutoCAD, Solidworks, SAS, Minitab, WITNESS, NetSuite, SAP, Pro-E and VIP PLANOPT

Area of Expertise

Lean manufacturing - Six Sigma – Toyota Production System – Supply chain management – Material Resource Planning – Facility Layout Design – Vendor Negotiation – Data collection – Regression Analysis – JIT – Kanban –Continuous Improvement – BPR

Work Experience

Industrial Engineering Intern at Quality Packaging, Vadodara, Gujarat, India May 2016 – July 2016

Quality Packaging is the manufacturer of corrugated boxes. Applied Lean and six sigma methodology in the organization.

Significant Achievements:

Remarkably reduced wastes by implementing statistical process control with expertise/gaining 23% profit.

Managed inventory, scheduled productions and processed BOM using Material Resource Planning software - NetSuite/ reduced inventory cost by 35%/ on-time deliveries increased by 30%/ profit of organization increased by 30%.

Designed future state of process using Value Stream Mapping/reducing non value activities/ reducing lead times by 35%.

Developed a labor management program to maximize labor utilization/ slashed payroll according to performance without affecting on-going process/ reduces administration cost by 25%.

Forecasted demands for next quarter year by Regression model using SAS with customer demand as dependent variable and various independent variables like number of consumers in the market, advertisement expenditure, prices of related goods which helped the organization to meet consumer demands during peak times and maintain customer relations.

Facility management Intern(Co-op) at Quality Packaging, Vadodara, Gujarat, India January 2014- April 2015

Significant Achievements:

Optimized existing layout design using PLANOPT software and reduced material flow cost by 22% and labor requirement by 9%.

Developed Simulation model with WITNESS 20 Horizon to compare different layouts in the facility/ providing best suitable layout to the organization with personnel and equipment requirement according to the budget plan/ profit increased by 30%.

Developed preventive maintenance schedule and initiated Poka Yoke mechanism/ reduced accidents by 70%.

Compared different investment alternative for purchasing new machine based on IRR and present worth/helped the organization to select best investment alternative.

Education

Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering GPA : 3.7/4.0 (pursuing) August 2015 - May 2017

University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Arlington, Texas, USA

Highlighted Courses: Advanced Operations Research, Advanced Engineering Economics, Production and Inventory control, Logistics Distribution System, Simulation, Regression Analysis, Automation, Metrics and Measurement, Project Management

Bachelors of Technology in Mechanical Engineering June 2011 - May 2015

Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT), Gujarat, INDIA

Highlighted Courses: Engineering Mathematics, Operations management, Operations Research, Optimization Techniques, Metrics and Measurement, Manufacturing Techniques, Workshop practices.

Languages Known: English (Professionally proficient), Hindi (Proficient), Gujarati (Native)

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